Swimming And Tiri Short Story Summary
Introduction
The character I was interested in describing was Tiri from a short story “Swimming and Tiri” written by Phil Kawana. The reason why I chose Tiri is because he is the most important person in the story. The second reason why I was interested in this character is because when he did some ruthless things to women, he never wanted his son to grow up and become like him. Tiri wanted his son to be a better person.
Tiri was a bad person. He would do bad things to girls and treat them badly. Tiri ‘‘warned her that If she told anyone he would kill her’’. I find Tiri a bad person in the story because he has no respect for women and also he threatens to kill them if they ever tell anyone. Tiri had to marry a woman named Mere because
he made her pregnant and also:‘‘she was from some respectable Tuhoe family’’.The only reason Tiri stayed with Mere was because they needed to look after their son, but after one year Mere walked out because Tiri slept with her cousin. I knew that Tiri was not worried at all when Mere left because they ‘‘never really liked each other’’.Tiri surprised me because of his actions towards anyone that would get on top of his nerves. I learned that Tiri was not a very good person when I was reading the first few lines of the short story, but after finishing it, Tiri taught me more. He taught me that people don’t always act the way they are when they are young Adult, People start to change as they grow “old enough” to handle what life throws at you.
In my opinion, it is surprising how Tiri has,“The desire to hurt someone”.This meant that when Tiri was a kid growing up. He had trouble finding friends because his color was not the same as the other kids, and he was also embarrassed that everyone will make fun of him seeing that he wears the,‘‘Remains of his sisters’’ clothes. The only way Tiri made it out of his bad childhood was beating up kids that would ever want to make fun of him he even beat his dad up for treating him like trash. While I was reading the last four lines of the story I was starting to feel sorry for Tiri. This is because for me,“there is no escaping” darkness. Darkness keeps annoying people until they can’t handle it anymore, this will cause them to take someone’s life or commit suicide.
In conclusion, from the short story ‘‘Swimming and Tiri’’, the character I chose from the story was Tiri. The reason why I chose this character was because he brought the story together, he also made the reader have something to feel about in the end. Having different feelings makes the story more special, and brings out the distinct perspective of the story and its theme. In the end, this has taught me to be aware of the people with bad influence because that can change a person's character.
The character I was interested in describing was Tiri from a short story “Swimming and Tiri” written by Phil Kawana. The reason why I chose Tiri is because he is the most important person in the story. The second reason why I was interested in this character is because when he did some ruthless things to women, he never wanted his son to grow up and become like him. Tiri wanted his son to be a better person.
Tiri was a bad person. He would do bad things to girls and treat them badly. Tiri ‘‘warned her that If she told anyone he would kill her’’. I find Tiri a bad person in the story because he has no respect for women and also he threatens to kill them if they ever tell anyone. Tiri had to marry a woman named Mere because
he made her pregnant and also:‘‘she was from some respectable Tuhoe family’’.The only reason Tiri stayed with Mere was because they needed to look after their son, but after one year Mere walked out because Tiri slept with her cousin. I knew that Tiri was not worried at all when Mere left because they ‘‘never really liked each other’’.Tiri surprised me because of his actions towards anyone that would get on top of his nerves. I learned that Tiri was not a very good person when I was reading the first few lines of the short story, but after finishing it, Tiri taught me more. He taught me that people don’t always act the way they are when they are young Adult, People start to change as they grow “old enough” to handle what life throws at you.
In my opinion, it is surprising how Tiri has,“The desire to hurt someone”.This meant that when Tiri was a kid growing up. He had trouble finding friends because his color was not the same as the other kids, and he was also embarrassed that everyone will make fun of him seeing that he wears the,‘‘Remains of his sisters’’ clothes. The only way Tiri made it out of his bad childhood was beating up kids that would ever want to make fun of him he even beat his dad up for treating him like trash. While I was reading the last four lines of the story I was starting to feel sorry for Tiri. This is because for me,“there is no escaping” darkness. Darkness keeps annoying people until they can’t handle it anymore, this will cause them to take someone’s life or commit suicide.
In conclusion, from the short story ‘‘Swimming and Tiri’’, the character I chose from the story was Tiri. The reason why I chose this character was because he brought the story together, he also made the reader have something to feel about in the end. Having different feelings makes the story more special, and brings out the distinct perspective of the story and its theme. In the end, this has taught me to be aware of the people with bad influence because that can change a person's character.